AmbitiousProcess (they/them)

I believe that people recommending Mint do so only because they once heard that it was a noob distro themselves.

100% agreed. I tried it early on because I was told it was good for beginners, and stopped using it quite fast because it didn’t feel much like a “noob distro” at all aside from a few things being a little more user friendly right at the very start of the experience.

Bazzite for gamers is a good suggestion, as is Fedora. I’ve found Fedora to be quite usable even if someone doesn’t know that much about tech. The setup is clear, the appstore doesn’t require any CLI or effort to install most apps someone will need, games can still run on it easily with basically no user modifications if you’re using Steam with Proton, the UI is easy to navigate for most former Windows or Mac users, etc.

Felt way better than Mint in terms of the out of box experience and just general design and usability imo.

It’s like saying “I want everyone to be equal” and saying both men and women should be given a 10% pay raise to account for the gender pay gap.

Sure, you raised women’s wages to cover the gap… but now the gap remains because you also increased men’s by the same amount.

As someone else already mentioned, !anticonsumption@slrpnk.net is a good bet, but it’s still not as active as other communities.

I’d suggest also looking into:

• !zerowaste@slrpnk.net / !zerowaste@lemmy.ml / !zerowaste@europe.pub
• !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net / !buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works / !buyitforlife@europe.pub / !buyitforlife@discuss.tchncs.de / !buyitforlife@lemmy.world
• !degrowth@slrpnk.net / !degrowth@feddit.nl / !degrowth@europe.pub
• !fixing@slrpnk.net

As all of those are frequently intertwined with the movements to either buy nothing, or reduce how much you absolutely need to buy in the first place.

For something outside Lemmy, if you haven’t already I’d suggest checking out the group aptly named the Buy Nothing Project, as they’re an incredible resource if you want to find things in your community others are willing to give away, or want an easy way to give away things you no longer need that doesn’t require having a yard sale style table setup or coordinating giveaways through Facebook posts. (though they do have Facebook groups for different areas for those who don’t want to use their app)

The irony that the meme has multiple popups about AI being bad while the entire meme is AI-generated.

Executives are often the most smug, overconfident, easiest to bullshit individuals. You’re the easiest to fool when you believe you can’t be fooled, and you’re most likely to make a bad management decision when you’re put in a position that says “you’re allowed to decide stuff because you’re incredibly smart and correct.”

A company doesn’t have to convince everyone who works for a company, or even just the people who are going to get fired. They just have to convince one dude who has power at the organization, and suddenly 4,000 people get fucked.

The zip archive is protected by a password, and I’d appreciate being able to verify if my data is actually in this breach as I’m a WIRED subscriber. If anyone has the password to the breach file, please let me know. (the only other way to acquire the password is to quite literally just pay the forum user who posted the breach, and I’d rather not do that.)

My email doesn’t show as breached on common sites used to check for that, like Have I Been Pwned, but I’ve seen many instances of only some password managers/dark web scanners seeing someone’s data in a breach, while others won’t even with the same data on the user being checked.

I don’t believe card details are in there as they use a separate payment provider. (If I go to my account management page and attempt to modify my payment method, the page begins making many requests to Stripe)

But hey, it’s still got names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, all that jazz.

I have no clue. I usually watch a good bit of LTT but I don’t recall watching a video when they did this, though I’m sure I could have just missed it.

Does seem like something they’d do though.

It is. As Salem Techsperts tested on their YouTube channel, you often have to downclock the RAM for it to actually function without errors.

However, with the prices for RAM still being so high, you could save a decent amount of money with this if you’re willing to keep your speeds a little lower.

Nobody. That’s the answer. Absolutely nobody does. They’re doing this shit of their free will.

And then on top of that, since a ton of people were then connecting to cell service since their WiFi was out, that meant the cell towers were so overloaded they couldn’t send data to operators that the car requires to be started up again, like multiple camera feeds, a 3d scan of the surroundings, etc.

For me it was Madalin Stunt Cars 2.

Played that shit all the time in the computer lab with my friends.

Is it Incoming from 1998?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNhvGHYoU3A

Is it Focal Golf?

Would look something like this, but… green, of course.

You could also check out this post on Atari Archive, this video by them too, and this collection of software you could search through using Ctrl + F and then “Golf”. There’s a lot of possible matches there.

There doesn’t really seem to be a lot of actual playable options or even recordings of a lot of them, though.

They don’t use local models yet, at least not for their existing AI chatbot sidebar feature. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot

When you use a chatbot, you are agreeing to that provider’s privacy policies and terms of use. Each chatbot provider has their own terms of use and privacy policies. View the privacy policies and terms for providers in Firefox.

Some chatbots are more privacy-respecting than others.

The problem is, it’s not unobtrusive.

When I right click and I instantly get an option silently added to the list that sends data to an AI model hosted somewhere, which I’ve accidentally clicked due to muscle memory, it’s not good just because there’s also the option there to disable it. When I start up my browser after an update and I am instantly given an open sidebar asking me to pick an AI model to use, that’s obtrusive and annoying to have to close and disable.

Mozilla has indicated they do not want to make these features opt-in, but opt-out. The majority of Mozilla users do not want these features by default, so the logical option is to make them solely opt-in. But Mozilla isn’t doing that. Mozilla is enabling features by default, without consent, then only taking them away when you tell them to stop.

The approach Mozilla is taking is like if you told a guy you weren’t interested in dating him, but instead of taking that as a “no.” he took it as a “try again with a different pickup line in 2 weeks” and never, ever stopped no matter what you tried. It doesn’t matter that you can tell him to go away now if he’ll just keep coming back.

Mozilla does not understand consent, and they are violating the consent of their users every time they push an update including AI features that are opted-in by default.

Because google only pays Mozilla because of:

• Maintaining search dominance
• Preventing anti-monopoly scrutiny

They don’t want Mozilla to compete in any AI space, because there’s already a ton of competition in the AI space given how much money gets thrown around, so they don’t benefit from anti-monopoly efforts, and there’s so many models that they don’t benefit from search dominance in the AI space. They’d much rather have Mozilla stay a non-AI browser while they get to implement AI features and show shareholders that they’re “the most advanced” of them all, or that “nobody else is doing it like we do”.

WE. DON’T. WANT. THIS.

Mozilla, for the love of god, stop cramming AI into the browser when the vast majority of your users just want a privacy-respecting browser that works.

I’ve said it before, and I’ve said it again: I will not donate any more money to the Mozilla foundation until they stop cramming AI into everything, and you should too.

SO fucking true. I feel like it’s actually impossible to even find foods with enough fiber in them in the first place. I might only get 5% of my daily fiber from a full meal, but at least my Snickers bar has 20g of protein in it for some reason.

We always somehow manage to focus on the wrong things.